#imperial units

[evil-jennifer-hamilton-wb]

I understand the USamerican's commitment to imperial units, but could y'all have consistent paper aspect ratios? You can do an A3, A4, A5 type system using imperial units. Is that too much to ask for??

[victusinveritas]

[blatentmisinformation]

King Hasselfist the First of England used the size of his own feet as the basis at which the size of a foot is defined in hopes it would normalise the idea of his unusually large feet in the minds of the English public.

[n2qfd]

Anything but metric...

[kply-industries]

[mademoisellesarcasme]

I LOVE INCHES POUNDS AND FEET

I LOVE FRACTIONS

I LOVE YARDS AND FATHOMS AND KIPS

[anarchist-rat-swarm]

Ignore all the circles that are fractions of something. They're dumb and there's no reason for them to be on the chart. When you're converting from kilometers to meters, you don't go through three eighths of a kilometer first.

So now you have 5 units of measurement. You'll notice that, with the exception of teaspoons, everything is in powers of 2. The reason it's handy is because you can eyeball a half, which means you can eyeball everything else as well. You can fold a paper into quarters or cut a pie into eight, but you aren't splitting a pizza evenly between 10 people without breaking out a protractor.

(Teaspoons are the odd one out because England. Some snob decided that there was a Correct Way To Make Tea, and his special spoon became a standardized unit. It's like if the 70's had given birth to the unit of length "one line of cocaine")

[la7ma-mafrooma]

Keep talking about Palestine!

[elektroskopik]

I,for the life of me, cannot tell you how much I weight in kg or how tall I am in meters, but I grew up in Ontario with the metric system and use it every day at work.

[sayruq]

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[cant-think-of-a-good-one]

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[historyforfuture]

No difference except , the zionists made it worse , they stripped them from their clothes

[taviamoth]

the americans & the british have been bombing civilians in yemen & lebanon for months (with a history before that)

these people did absolutely nothing. they were murdered because their countries are actively supporting palestine.

this is a war crime. there is no excuse to do this, but they are doing it because they need the system of western impunity to survive. they need international institutions toothless because if israeli leaders stand trial, THEY ARE NEXT

[transandscreamingallthetime]

Inches, Feet, Yards are fine

I don't even mind 3/8ths of an inch and stuff like that. It's cute, it can be useful. They're all fine as long as you stick to ONE of those units. What is cursed is stuff like: 6ft 2 or 1 lb 6 oz because then you have to remember the conversions between feet and inches. Does that 6 oz mean it's a little bit more than 1 lb or is it nearly 2 lbs worth??? It somehow manages to be imprecise and also difficult to get a rough idea of the scale of things. I hate it. But there are even worse measurements. Like the horrors of gauge. Used for size of cylinders or wire, and it makes no sense. Firstly, it goes the wrong way. So a 12 gauge is bigger than a 20 gauge. If you want to know what gauge a certain diameter is, you need to use this godawful formula:

I just, don't know why you would ever use this, it's not useful. No-one likes it. It's just stuck around as a standard size in some areas and now if you want to make jewelry you encounter this awful measurement system.

[hussyknee]

This ruling is non-binding (not sure how it would be enforced even if it was considering Israel's chief protector is the U.S., which doesn't recognise the International Criminal Court and keeps trying to punish it for this kind of thing), but there's support for it across the board except from the US and its new vassal state, the UK. The Tory government has backed the US in ignoring every ICJ ruling on Palestine thus far and Starmer has been avoiding the issue but reinstated funding for UNRWA a few hours after the latest one. Starmer is a spineless Zionist maggot and as much of a US shill has the Tories however, so which way his government tips will probably depends on the strength of the US's reaction.

If you still want to vote for that death-worshipping lurching corpse in November and maybe claim back some of the voters who've decided they can't endorse this bloodthirsty maniac, now is the time to take to the streets and threaten to withhold your vote unless he fucking complies. Don't worry, the same amount of you will vote for him anyway since genocide is not a red line for you, but the DNC is jumpy enough now that they might want to err on the side of caution. Please try and stop your precious democracy from massacring any more children, even if only to save your own skins.